a few bad barrels

VOTE
* "Economist/Statistician Ron Baiman works as a senior research
specialist at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, and teaches at the University of
Chicago." he doesnt reckon theres a snowflakes chance that the
amelection wasnt stolen... his compelling analysis here: (PDF)
http://www.freepress.org/images/departments/997.pdf

* "Vermont Electors Request Senators and Congressperson to Refuse
to Certify Ohio Electors"
http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/vermont-electors-request-senators-and.html

* nyt ed 'count every vote'
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/opinion/20mon1.html

* "Democrats say, "Let's count all the votes." Republicans smell a rat." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-washvote19dec19,1,4605107.story

INAPPROPRIATE SNIGGERER AND FRIENDS
* " The president got a tad petulant when fielding questions on Social Security. His emphatic response to any and all queries about his position on the subject was an indignant, righteous refusal to answer: “You’re not going to get me to negotiate with myself,” he repeatedly told the perplexed reporters. “I know what you’re trying to get me to do. You’re trying to get me to answer ‘Why this,’ ‘why that,’ to take positions -- don’t bother to ask me.” Rather than merely dodge the questions, Bush seemed intent on staking out an explicit, principled position in favor of dodging the question."
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2004/12/index.html#005090

* praps the 'get rumsfeld' thing by kristol and others is an attempt to get wolfy installed... praps rummy isnt quite sufficiently hawkish. devils, yaknow...

* andycard: 'we've already won the war - sure there are some insurgent attacks, but they arent attacking all of the people, all of the time'. so sweet.

* " The E-mails provided to The News appear to show Kerik offering a company inside details of a city investigation into its mob links and advance notice of upcoming city contracts." http://nydailynews.com/front/story/263573p-225602c.html

* " A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq. Also released by the ACLU today are a slew of other records including a December 2003 FBI e-mail that characterizes methods used by the Defense Department as "torture" and a June 2004 "Urgent Report" to the Director of the FBI that raises concerns that abuse of detainees is being covered up." geddit? 34 authorised the torture. personally. http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17216&c=206

* jonk makes the news. in london. about bcci. parently the brits wont get confused between bbc and bcci. apparently jonk has a record fighting terror. funny time to mention it. he may have won an election if he'd done it earlier, and elsewhere
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1376750,00.html


* the pharma industry thing is going nuts. eg http://worstpills.org/




* disclosure: i dont sign all of my own emails

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